Marvellous news chaps!! The chef says he has several fine recipes for catfish and eel soups along with some form of Brazillian stew that sounds quite exciting. I have arranged for a tasting just as soon as we can find a reliable source of catfish!
I would have thought we could use the QUATTT for this, but I am told this is not how it works. Only things from an origin site can travel through the device at present apparently. I quizzed Brian about this, he is always spouting nonsense about “origin site”, “no historical fish”, “quantum continuum” and “catastrophe” and the like, I sometimes have a suspicion that he is just fobbing me off with fancy words! This time, however, he was insistent. There were pretty convincing notes on a recording sheet to back him up. Anything that travels through time and or space using this method must have set off from the QUATT its self, or from the QTD (Quantum Travel Device) in Scotland.
So, top priority is to source some catfish!
Now then, I seem to have got side tracked, all this talk of delicious soup is making me hungry! I shall tell you about the other developments in double quick time so I can call for some sandwiches!
The Brazilian beta test has caused a great deal of uproar around here, otters dashing to and from each other’s labs with their latest theories and findings, Zsofia and Peter have been in great demand answering more and more detailed questions about the feathered creatures, the small people who spotted them, the larger people who spotted them, the delicious soup, and of course the the Rainforest Otters. There has been so much commotion, not to mention Peter’s note taking that I anticipated a whole slew of reports hitting my desk in the near future. I was not looking forward to that, I can tell you!
It seemed like a much better idea for us all to get together and talk through the ideas. That way the whole thing could be dealt with whilst eating those marvellous nibbles that the catering department provides for these sorts of get-togethers! Simon Swifttail and Debbie Shorttail were the principle contributors, they have both been doing a great deal of research.
Debbie has been researching Rio de Janeiro, she tells me they have a huge carnival type affair there every year. It seems that it involves some amount of dressing up, which could account for the bird-like humans. It also seems to be the consensus that the small squealy creatures are human-cubs rather than an unheard of sub-species.
Simon believes that the large otters of the Rainforest Raft are likely to be the those referred to in the prophecy as “The Otters of the Forest and Grassland” the grassland reference is still elusive, but mentioned so close to the pink and black shirts, he believes it must be so! He also believes that these fellows might be the same or at least know of the large armed otters Zsofia and Peter spotted on their very first trip. They could very well be one and the same, but they seemed pretty amiable and provided soup…they can’t be all bad if they provided soup!
These chaps were the focus of an unexpectedly large contribution from Olivia Sharpclaws and a contingent from the security council. Mainly the troublesome fellows who want to use the QUATTT for this spying malarkey! I am not sure how they ended up at the meeting now I think of it, I didn’t invite them I can tell you!
They claim that these giant otters are an obvious threat to the UK raft, they have appeared in the future (or are going to appear or something), armed and during what seems to be a lockdown of the Holt, which, they tell me, is sufficient grounds for some sort of surveillance. They went on to insist that their familiarity with Peter and Zsofia points the finger of suspicion at them!
Suspicion of what, that’s what I’d like to know!! Suspicion of falling in a river? Suspicion of surreptitious soup? Nonsense I tell you!! They are a fine team!!
These chaps insist that they maybe in cahoots! There were more outrageous mutterings things about internal security monitoring and the like!
I put a stop to all of that in short order and no mistake!
There are no cahoots in my organisation! Not a single one!
We do need to find out more about the Rainforest fellows, and Peter and Zsofia are the right otters for the job I say!
If the prophesied Otters of the Apocalypse do turn up, well we’ll deal with them without the need for all these nefarious activities!
Right then! All this talk of spies and whatnot has given me quite the appetite, it’s time to track down some minnow sandwiches! Yes, minnow sandwiches will be just the ticket!
The Otter Chronicles 